This is a “remix” of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Edward Cullen from Twilight. And yep, it’s pretty funny. It plays the overwrought, overdramatic bits of Twilight up against the snarky, sarcastic Buffy we all love.
Yet I am a bit irritated by the constant comparison of Buffy to Twilight as if Buffy was perfect and Bella Swan just a horrendous corruption of all feminist ideals. Was I the only one who remembers the part where Buffy slept with not one, but two vampires who also stalked her, hovered outside her bedroom while she slept, and in one instance, tried to rape her?
Buffy gets a pass because mostly she kicks vampire ass and in the end she doesn’t need any of the men. However, I very much doubt if you can scratch a Buffy fan and find someone who doesn’t get a bit emotional about Buffy and Angel. Forbidden love is as much a part of the Buffy mythos as Twilight–in fact, I describe Twilight to people as “The Buffy and Angel part of Buffy, without most of the sarcasm and action.”
But you know, the reason a lot of girls don’t want to call themselves feminists is because they think it means they have to hate men, or fit some certain vision of a “strong woman” that maybe they don’t want to fit. What if they’re quiet and bookish, like Bella Swan, not coordinated enough to fight vampires?
I’m not saying that Twilight is a perfect vision of the romance I think girls should aspire to–it’s not. But it’s fiction. The romance in Love in the Time of Cholera or Lolita or Beloved isn’t one that I want teenage girls aspiring to, either, yet I think those are all wonderful works of literature that should be widely read. And Buffy? Well, the human parts of Buffy are the ones that really kept us with her for seven seasons, not the perfect ass-kicking sarcasm machine. That would’ve gotten old, fast.
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:15 am
However, I very much doubt if you can scratch a Buffy fan and find someone who doesn’t get a bit emotional about Buffy and Angel.
Try scratching me. I could take or leave the Buffy/Angel relationship.
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:42 am
Buffy was created by people who cared about the characters and worked to make them real…not perfect.
Twilight seems to have been created by someone with good intentions, but who sold out by the fourth book and left her characters in shambles. I know many local fans who were so turned off by the last book that they moved onto other things.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:45 am
i loved that! buffy versus edward was fantastic. i am glad that she staked him.
July 6th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
“I’m not saying that Twilight is a perfect vision of the romance I think girls should aspire to–it’s not. But it’s fiction. The romance in Love in the Time of Cholera or Lolita or Beloved isn’t one that I want teenage girls aspiring to, either, yet I think those are all wonderful works of literature that should be widely read.”
Are you saying Twilight is a work of literature on the level of Lolita or Beloved? Twilight is a fantasy romance novel, Lolita and Beloved are neither of those things, nor are they targeted towards young girls. Why are you comparing them at all? What is your point?
July 7th, 2009 at 3:21 am
Ditto for me not loving the Buffy.Angel angle. Thanks for sharing the video, I found it hilarious.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
That’s a very hilarious.
The Vampire Slayer vs the Vampire… LOL..
But I guess it would be nice if they create a movie about Edward and Buffy.
July 13th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Go ahead and scratch me. I loathe, and always have loathed, the Buffy/Angel relationship. It was my very least part of the early seasons, and when I rewatch my season 3 DVDs these days I pick up a book or something during their scenes. Twilight, therefore, is like all the bad parts of Buffy with none of the good - a creepy, destructive “romance” that I don’t find remotely compelling.
September 28th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
“Was I the only one who remembers the part where Buffy slept with not one, but two vampires who also stalked her, hovered outside her bedroom while she slept, and in one instance, tried to rape her?”
The circumstances are completely different: First off, Angel had a soul, and when he lost it, that is when he started “hovering outside her bedroom,” needless to say, unlike Bella, Buffy got over him and ended up killing him. Second of all, her relationship with Spike, unlike the vampire/human relationship in Twilight, symbolized her situation at the time - she recently got pulled from heaven, and was basically at rock bottom - it was a dirty, and in her eyes, shameful relationship, unlike in Twilight, where manipulation and dominance was glorified as “love.” The only thing similar was a human/vampire relationship, yet similar circumstances do not indicate similar characterization - Bella basically became a living zombie after Edward left, while Buffy struggled, but ultimately pulled through without her lovers.
“…they have to hate men, or fit some certain vision of a “strong woman” that maybe they don’t want to fit. What if they’re quiet and bookish, like Bella Swan, not coordinated enough to fight vampires?”
That notion of hating men is a widely used and many times untrue stereotype - Buffy doesn’t propagate a hatred towards men. Secondly, Buffy the show was ripe with characters that didn’t have super powers; most of them didn’t actually. However, Bella in no way exemplifies a “strong” character, regardless of her gender because the textual evidence does not support this. I cannot count how many times she’s given in to Edward’s demands or is coddled by him even though she believes differently. In essence, she doesn’t have a strong will, and most of the time heeds to others. You don’t have to fight vampires to be a strong character.